Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and PoliticsThrough the analysis of narratives, paintings and objets surr�alistes by Breton, Aragon, Dal�, and others, Malt examines how the object emerges as psychologically and historically marked in the surrealist context, functioning as both fetish and fetishized commodity. Responding to recent debates about the role of the uncanny and the representation of the body in surrealist art and literature, Malt's study offers new perspectives on familiar works such as the paintings of Salvador Dal� as well as illuminating relatively neglected ones such as Breton's po�mes-objets. |
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Contents
Subjectivity and Revolutionary Commitment | 9 |
Benjamin | 41 |
The Surrealist Object in Theory | 76 |
The Surrealist Object as Fetish | 121 |
Poetry in the Object World | 144 |
Painting and the Fetish Surface | 180 |
Conclusion | 212 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics |
| Authors | Johanna Malt, Lecturer in the Department of French Johanna Malt |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0199253420, 9780199253425 |
| Length | 234 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical |
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